Job 28:6

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

The place of sapphires, are the stones thereof, and it hath, nuggets of gold: -

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Its rocks are a source of lapis lazuli,containing flecks of gold.

Hebrew Names Version
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

King James Version
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

English Standard Version
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

New Century Version
Sapphires are found in rocks, and gold dust is also found there.

New English Translation
a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

Amplified Bible
"Its stones are the bed of sapphires; It holds dust of gold.

New American Standard Bible
"Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

World English Bible
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires,And its dust contains gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

Contemporary English Version
that have jewels or gold.

Complete Jewish Bible
its rocks have veins of sapphire, and there are flecks of gold.

Darby Translation
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

Easy-to-Read Version
In the rocks there are sapphires and grains of pure gold.

George Lamsa Translation
The stones of it are the place where sapphires are found, and it has dust of gold in its paths.

Good News Translation
The stones of the earth contain sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

Lexham English Bible
Its stones are the place of sapphire, and the earthen dirt has gold.

Literal Translation
The place of sapphires is in its stones, and it has dust of gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is founde a place, whose stones are clene Saphirs, and where ye clottes of the earth are golde.

American Standard Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Bible in Basic English
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

King James Version (1611)
The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.

English Revised Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The place of saphir ben stoonys therof, and the clottis therof ben gold.

Update Bible Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it has dust of gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

New King James Version
Its stones are the source of sapphires, And it contains gold dust.

New Living Translation
Here the rocks contain precious lapis lazuli, and the dust contains gold.

New Life Bible
Sapphires come from its rocks and its dust has gold.

New Revised Standard
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

Revised Standard Version
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

Young's Literal Translation
A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

Contextual Overview

¹ Though there is, for silver, a vein, and a place for the gold they refine; ² Iron, out of the ore, is taken, and, stone, poureth out copper; ³ An end, hath one set to the darkness, and, into every extremity, is, he, making search, for the stone of darkness and death-shade; ⁴ He hath sunken a shaft, away from the inhabitants; Places forsaken by the foot, they hang down, away from men, sway to and fro; ⁵ As for the earth, out of it, cometh forth bread, and, under it, is upturned, as it were fire; ⁶ The place of sapphires, are the stones thereof, and it hath, nuggets of gold: - ⁷ A path, the vulture hath not discerned, nor hath the eye of the hawk scanned it; ⁸ Ravenous beasts have not made a track thereof, neither hath the lion marched thereon: ⁹ Upon the flint, hath he thrust forth his hand, He hath turned up mountains by the roots; ¹⁰ Among the rocks, hath he cut open streams, and, every precious thing, hath his eye seen:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sapphires: Job 28:16, Exodus 24:10, Song of Solomon 5:14, Isaiah 54:11, Revelation 21:19

dust of gold: or, gold ore

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:18 - sapphire

Cross-References

Genesis 27:33
Then did Isaac tremble with an exceeding great trembling, and said Who then was it that caught game and brought in to me and I did eat of all ere yet thou didst come in and I blessed him? Yea blessed, shall he remain!

Genesis 28:1
Then Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, - and commanded him and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires,.... In some parts of the earth its stones are a quarry of sapphires, put here for all precious stones: this is a most excellent precious stone, of a sky colour, with golden specks, and was one of the stones in the breast plate of the high priest; and by which are represented the pavement under the feet of the God of Israel, the throne of Christ, his bowels and affections for his people, the comeliness of them, and the glory of his church in the latter day, Exodus 24:10;

and it hath dust of gold; some parts of the earth abound with the dust of gold; its dust is gold, or it hath gold as plenty as dust; though some think this refers to the sapphire in the preceding clause, which, as Pliny says d, has "pulvis aureus", dust of gold, in it, and shines and sparkles with golden points, or specks; and so say other writers e; but the word used rather signifies clods, lumps, masses of gold, which better agree with the earth; and, besides, no very good reason can be given why there should be such a particular description of the sapphire; whereas the earth is the original of that, and of all the other things before spoken of.

d Nat. Hist. l. 37. c. 9. e Ruaeus de Gemmis, l. 2. c. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stones of it are the place - Among the stones of the earth sapphires are found. “The situation of the sapphire is in alluvial soil, in the vicinity of rocks, belonging to the secondary floetz trap formation, and imbedded in gneiss.” Jameson. “The sapphire occurs in considerable abundance in the granitic alluvion of Matura and Saffragam, in Ceylon.” Davy.

Sapphires - Compare the note at Isaiah 54:11. The sapphire is a precious stone, usually of a blue color, though it is sometimes yellow, red, violet. green, or white. In hardness it is inferior to the diamond only:

“In unroll’d tufts, flowers purpled, blue and white,

Like sapphire, pearl, in rich embroidery.”

Shakespeare

“He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue,

And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly blue.”

Blackmore

The mineral is, next to the diamond, the most valuable of the precious stones. The most highly prized varieties are the crimson and carmine red; these are the “Oriental ruby” of the traveler, and next to the diamond are the most valuable jewels hitherto discovered. The blue varieties - the sapphire of the jeweler - are next in value to the red. The yellow varieties - the “Oriental Topaz” of the jeweler - are of less value than the blue or true sapphire. Edinburgh Encyclopedia, article “Mineralogy.”

And it hath dust of gold - Margin, or “gold ore.” Literally, “The dusts of gold are in it.” Gold is often found in the form of dust. It is obtained by washing it from the sand, and passing it over a fleece of wool, to which the gold adheres.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 28:6. The stones - the place of sapphires — In the language of mineralogists, the gangue, matrix, or bed in which the sapphire is found. For a description of this stone, see on Job 28:16.

Dust of gold — Or rather, gold dust.